- I had a hard time finding this link.
- list systems and their ratings.
ThinkPad Edge E520 (1143AFU) Notebook Intel Core i5 2430M(2.40GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory DDR3 1333 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD±R/RW Intel HD Graphics 3000
- $655
- Doesn't have an USB 3 port
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Tech Review Hardware: Monday, April 16, 2012
https://friendly.ubuntu.com/?laptops=on&stars=3&release=4&popularity=any&term=
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Tech Review Computers: Monday, February 13, 2012
HP Pavilion dm4-2180us Notebook PC - Intel Core i5-2430M 2.4GHz, 6GB DDR3, 640GB HDD, DVDRW, 14" Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- $650 with a $50 rebate
- Look like the kind of machine I would like to get.
- Intel Core i5-2430M 2.4 GHz
- 6GB memory
- 14" screen
- How many cores?
- http://ark.intel.com/products/53450/Intel-Core-i5-2430M-Processor-(3M-Cache-2_40-GHz)
- 2 cores with 4 threads
- Max memory is 8.
- Windows 7 Home Premium (sic.) 64-bit
- Only USB 2
- 3 USB 2.0 ports
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
- looks nice
- 4.41 lbs
- WiDi Widget
- Set screen to HD TV through WiFi
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Tech Review Computers: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
HP ProBook 4530S LJ532UT Notebook PC - Intel Core i7-2630QM 2.0GHz, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, Blu-Ray Player, 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6490M, 15.6" Display, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Silver
- $700
- 15.6"
- 2.0GHz i7 Quad Core (turbo 2.9GHz)
- 4GB (8GB Max)
- 500 GB
- Win7 Pro
- AMD Radeon HD 6490M
- Gigabit Ethernet
- {Nice looking machine}
HP Pavilion dv6-6183nr Refurbished Notebook AMD Phenom II Quad-Core P960(1.8GHz) 15.6" 8GB Memory 640GB HDD BD Combo
- $570
- 15.6"
- AMD Quad-Core (1.8GHz)
- 8 GB memory
- 640 GB
Acer Aspire AS7551-7422 Refurbished Notebook AMD Phenom II Quad-Core N970(2.2GHz) 17.3" Wide SXGA 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Radeon HD 4250
- $360
- 17.3"
- AMD Quad-core (2.2GHz)
- 4 GB Memoy (8GB Max)
- 500 GB
- ATI Radeon HD 4250
- 100Mbps Ethernet
XFS: the filesystem of the future?
- Faster at 8 threads
- actively making improvements
- really the history behind them
Intel Haswell Graphics Driver To Be Opened Up Soon
- Ivy Bridge
- launch in 1 week
- twice as fast as Ivy Bridge
- Haswell
- launch in a year? (2013)
- should be in Linux 3.4
- Mesa 8.1 DRI driver
- Direct3D 11.1
- OpenGL 3.2
- fast - comparable to a mid-to-highend discrete GPU
- AMD Redeon HD 7000 still doesn't have a Linux driver
"We have a saying: Move fast and break things. The idea is that if you never break anything, you're probably not moving fast enough."
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook in his company's S1 IPO filing
Utah schools start adopting open source textbooks
- Salt Lake City
- $5 per book instead of $80 per book
Microsoft removes start button in Windows 8
- replace by hot spot in corner that will pop between Metro UI and desktop
Monday, October 3, 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
- A binary-interface standard for software componentry
- Introduced by Microsoft in 1993
- enable inter-process communication
- Used as an umbrella term for OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX, COM+ and DCOM technologies
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cyber - a prefix used to describe a person, thing, or idea as part of the computer and information age
http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci211875,00.html
Taken from kybernetes, Greek for steersman or governor.
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